Character/Logo + Pixel Art

I’ve been lucky enough to work on some fun jobs lately. Unfortunately, I can’t show them all, but here’s a couple of the pieces that I can.

Concept

Final sketch

These are for a Youtube channel called Less energy. The guy was cool, not picky, and very easy to work with. Here’s the review he gave me:

“I got Jumping Monkey to do some YouTube artwork for me. His work is very affordable and really professional. He understood what I wanted and delivered a better product than I could have imagined.”

-William, Upcoming YouTuber

You can email me at jumpingmonkeyart@gmail.com if you want to commission your own work.

Here’s a pixel drawing I did as a test for another job. I always looked down on pixel art, but now I get the appeal. It’s REALLY addicting. And actually very easy once I figured out the resolution. The program I used for this, and probably other pixel art in the future, is called Affinity Photo, which has a special pixel tool that makes the process much faster and simpler.

2 thoughts on “Character/Logo + Pixel Art”

It’s crazy how recognizable pixel art is, you’d think you wouldn’t be able to determine what the figures/characters were, but you can. It’s a real testament to the power of minimalism and how our brains work.

Thanks, man! It’s funny, every time I create a sad looking character, I end up overdoing it. It has happened a bunch of times and I keep having to tweak the drawing to make the character look less depressed. I’m starting to think it’s because I have a habit of dropping the brow/lids too low over the eyes.
Pixel art is incredible. The only problem with it I had is when I tried making a second character, without raising the resolution I felt restricted. Like there weren’t enough options. And at a certain point when raising the resolution, it isn’t really pixel art anymore.